Connecticut western news., 1887-02-09
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 to the people of a constitutional amendment, prohibiting the sale of liquor in the State was reporte favorably to the house.
 Frank Mallon, an ex-convict recently dis charged from the Kings County Penitentiary shot both Warden Green and Keeper Hughes, of that institution, in street car in Brooklyn He was oyerpowered and locked up.
 A fearful affray occurred on the Pittsburg and Cleveland express train. A prisoner in charge of two police officers was rescued by four of his friends, and the officers wero wounded so severely that they will probably die.
 In New York, James Fitzpatrick, while in- toxicated, encouraged savage bulldog to at- tack his wife, whom he held by the neck The woman was terribly lacerated and was taken to the hospital, the police were instructed to search for Fitzpatrick and the dog was shot.
 The Supreme Court of Washington Terri tory decided unconstitutional the law granting suffrage to women. The title of the law con tilets with provision of the organic act of the Territory. The decision was by Judges Lang ford and Turner, Chief Justice Greene dissent ing.
 The soft coal miners on the Monongahela rlver struck for higher wages.
 --The New Jersey Legislature is taking steps to investigate the prevailing coal strike.
 Two officers of the law lost their lives in an attempt to arrest a desperado in Arkansas
 Two more cars on the San Francisco street railroads have been blown to pieces with dyna- mite.
 The discount teller of the First National Bank, of Baltimore, has fled after stealing $S4, 900.
 Maine fishermen think that non- intercourse with Canada will not hurt anybody but the Canadians.
 A negro living near Baltimore, while play ing With pistol, swallowed two ot his teeth with a bullet.
 One of the burglars who stole large quantity of sealskin sacques in Cleveland was arrested in Pittsburg. Tho Southern Telegraph Company was sold at auction in Richmond Va, and pur- chased by the re-organizers of the old com pany.
 The little town of Wellborn, in Texas, was shaken twice by slight earthquake shocks, causing windows to rattle and houses to | tremble.
 A Boston tenant has recovered damages from his landlord on account of sickness and death in his family resulting from imperfect | drainage.
 The coal handlers of Philadelphia are sat- | lsfed with their work and wages, but may strike out of sympathy with their brethren in | New York.
 "A wideawake merchant in North Carolina, when three robbers demanded his safe key, went for his shotgun. Two of the unlawful | visitors arc dead. In Texas John H. Regan Representative | ln congress, was elected in joint convention of the Legislature as United States Senator to succeed Samuel Bell Maxey. The police of Chicago claim to have frus- | trated plot to rescue the condemned anarch- lsts or to prevent their execution by blowing them and the jail up together. Temporary insanity caused John Dahlman, of Milwaukee, to hang himself in ais barn. He commenced life poor grocer boy, and &C., cumulated a fortune or $1, ,0Q0,OOO, At Albuquerque, N. M., two detectives, accompanied by four determined men with | bloodhounds, attacked a gang of train rob oers, and killed one and captured two of the party.
 A Texan merchant named Galloway, find- Ing burglars ransacking his store in the town | named after him, opened fire on them, but was himself, together with his clerk, mortally wounded.
 The Mutual Life Insurance Company have withdrawn their appeal, and will pay Mrs. | Wackerle, of St. Louis the amount of the policy on her husbands life. Wackerle died nearly fifteen years ago.
 The Supreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo-, granted stay of execution until April next to Il, M. Brooks, alias w. H. l.. Maxwell, and the Chinese highbinders, of St. Louis, pend ing an appeal for new trial. | Tn the lower house of the Texas legislature ! the joint resolution proposing prohibition amendment to the constitution came up, and after some technical amendments was passed by vote of so ayes to 21 noes.
 A mother and daughter hung themselves by the same rope in East Hanover, Pa.; Miss Hoffman, of Goshen, Ind, being disappointed In love, took chloroform, and Dr. Alexander l closed a round of dissipation at Knoxville with dose of morphine.
 Raymond Rogers Belmont, son of August Belmont and member of the banking firm of the Belmonts, accidentally shot himself at the house of his father in New York Monday morn- ing. He was practicing with his pistol at the time of the accident
 | A high wind sprung up on the west slope of the Cascade mountains east of Tacoma, w. T. A few hours later it blew down large tree into camp where number of Chinese | laborers were sleeping. Nine dead bodies were removed from the camp and dozen o1 more laborers were injured. | What is supposed to have been an earth. | quake Is reported from Nebraska. | During the last year the loss in Indiana from hog chol, ra amounted to over S4, ,0OO, ,OO0
 -Precocity in crime is illustrated in Boston by the discovery of & gang of juvenile horse thieves.
 The post office at East Chatham, N. Y was robbed of $50 in money and 8 quantity o1
 postage stamps.
 An old man kneeling at his devotions il the Catholic cathedral at Portland, Me-, dieC suddenly.
 The Gate City Guard of Atlanta will parade in full uniform under arms in France anc Belgium.
 Mrs. Esther Van Woert, who killed hel
 husband in self-defence at Stokesdale, was ac , quilted by jury. William Lud Cornish, who murdered Mis- } Lulu Green, near Springfield, Ky, was lynchet
 there at night. t In Washington, D. O., George N. Walker charged with numbering John c. Miller, ha
 been acquitted by a jury. : A Texan Attorney, failing to collect , draft on merchant in the same town, riddle( ! hlm with skot so that he died. . A law, making it only misdemeanor tt
 kill the betrayer of woman, is proposed il Illinois, and is supported even by clergymen
 Schwartz is still held in custody at Morris
 Ill. He has not been indicted, but is supposed p to know something of the Rock Island express d robbery and murder. A little girl while looking in a mirror a 2 Macon, Ga., saw the reflection of a wife mur J der, and thus becomes the main witness fo ' the prosecution. ] Sheriff Holland, of Jacksonville, capture, |. two negroes Tn the act of placing obstruction
 on the track at Marietta, Fla, with view l.
 wreck coming passenger train.
 The verdict of the jury in Mrs. Emmons
 case IS that the lady IS sane and capable o
 managing her personal and business affairs r The pair will not live together again.
 Black diphtheria is raging ten miles north
 east of Madison, Wis. Peter Meyers, a farmer
 lost five childIen. The schools at Wannake
 have been closed and the town quarantined.
 Richard Woods, the Negro, who crimi
 ma ly assaulted little Mary Eddleman, of Lea
 venworth, Kansas, was taken from jail early i
 the morning and put to death in horribl | manner.
 A bill introduced in the New York Assem-
 ply proposes to make combinations to corne
 articles of food, fuel and other necessaries o l lofral affn aIal ra1piSha a hla A sIlnl